Review videos - They don't seem to inhale.

[Retirednhappy]

I want to quit smoking, and I want to do it safely. If I think I see something or read something that totally doesn't make sense, I will question it.

I truly wonder how anyone can vape 36mg juice all day (1 ml per hour according to many posters) and not end up in the hospital, unless they are not absorbing the nicotine.

36 mg of nic. X 12 hours = 432 mg of nicotine!!!!!

Happy

 

[Fringeoflunacy]

No offense meant, but you keep asking for people's opinions and then basically saying you don't believe them. What I recommend is getting a variety of nic levels to start (12mg, 18mg, and 24mg, for example). Try each and see how you feel. Your body is very good at letting you know if you're getting the right amount of nic. Nic absorption also varies from person to person, the human body is an interesting thing. Do what works for you and don't worry about how other people do it.

 

[PaulB]

I want to quit smoking, and I want to do it safely. If I think I see something or read something that totally doesn't make sense, I will question it.

I truly wonder how anyone can vape 36mg juice all day (1 ml per hour according to many posters) and not end up in the hospital, unless they are not absorbing the nicotine.

36 mg of nic. X 12 hours = 432 mg of nicotine!!!!!

Happy

I can't recall hearing of anybody vaping 36mg liquid at a rate of a milliliter an hour all day. Not saying there aren't some examples, but heavy vapers, from what I've read (and please don't ask me to cite--the examples are many...), tend to report more like 5-6ml in a probably longer than 12-hour day of vaping. So probably divide that figure in half or more.

I think that, whether absorption is per lung or oral or whatever (and for these purposes, does it matter?), all versions of the math indicate that vaping results in less nicotine absorption overall than smoking. In round numbers, a two pack a day smoker's daily supply of cigarettes contains around 40mg of nicotine--so that's a maximum potential of absorbing 40mg of nicotine in a day. How much of that is absorbed? I don't know. For somebody who vapes 5 ml a day at 36mg (what I think most would call a heavy vaper) that daily potential supply is 180mg. From my reading, a closer to average vaper might use about 3 ml of 18mg, for a daily potential supply of 54mg--still higher than the 40 cigarette-provided amount. (My own consumption lately is typically about 4ml at 24mg, or 96mg potential and I still smoke 3-4 cigarettes every day with a >12-hour interval between my early morning and late evening smoking times.)

OK, I think we know a couple things. There aren't a lot of ECF posters reporting that they go to the hospital frequently with nicotine poisoning. (I can't speak for others, but will personally attest that I have never done that.) And there are a lot of ECF posters who find that this nicotine delivery--whatever it is--is reducing or eliminating their urge to smoke. So, yes, as has been posted on this forum time and time again, one way or another, nicotine consumption via vaping works quite differently from nicotine consumption via smoking. How and why that is so may be unclear beyond that at this time. But it seems to work.

 

[Huuwap]

Yeah, it's like when I'm showing off my PV to non-vapers and say "Hey y'all, watch this!" and they go "Oooh, Ahhh"! They would be pretty boring videos if there weren't huge clouds of vapor.

I get sick of seeing people vape throughout their review videos. For flavors it makes sense, give it a shot so we can see how your face reacts to the flavor...but on different batteries? I really don't see much if any difference in battery swaps, especially if they're using the same carto/atty/tank as they were before.

If you're watching the videos to see reviewers vape exuberantly, you might want to steer clear of my YouTube channel, lol. I don't plan on spending too much face time with the PV in my mouth. I'll give you enough to show that what I'm using works and I'll describe it in comparison to other stuff I've used. Oh, and I'll be inhaling every single time .

 

[Retirednhappy]

lol, I get your point, cookdawg.

Thanks for your advice PaulB, and I agree with you that i have to experiment with nic levels and find what works for me. I guess with all the reading I've done in the last week, I've seen some conflicting information that has me confused and frustrated. After some thinking, I've also come to the conclusion that I should have expected that since this whole vaping thing is so new in this world.

If I offended or angered anyone, I truly apologize. I guess I need to keep reading and work on learning what works for me.

Thanks for all the advice and information, everyone.

Happy

 

[jacq]

What a great thread. It has answered a lot of questions for me. Particularly as my first post a few days ago was that I was having a suffocation feeling whilst vaping. I have now switched to VG liquid and only inhale half of my vapor. I am still smoking 2 analog a day. Hope to quit them soon.

 

[dearme]

I was a PAD smoker for 40 years and never inhaled deep into my lungs. I also never exhaled thru my nose.

I vape the same way I smoked. In my mouth and the back of my throat and then exhaling out my mouth. That's probably why I didn't have a hard time quitting cold turkey. I quit smoking 13 months before I started vaping.

I vape 2 to 3 ml of 24mg daily and have for about 8 months of vaping. I don't intend to quit vaping or go to 0 nic.

Everybody smoked and now vapes differently than a lot of other people. It's all habit.

 

[Eric in NJ]

You don't absorb all the nicotine in the fluid, if you vape 24mg your not getting it all into your system. Im not a scientist but I think its a very small fraction that you are absorbing of the nic, so the higher levels allow you to absorb the amount that each person feels they need. Others need less so vape what works for you personally. I'm not sure how some of you can vape 6ml+ a day in general of any level nic, seems like I would have to constatly vape and not take a break to breathe just air to reach that level. That is a hell of a lot of vaping lol. I thought I vaped alot when I almost killed a 3ml tank the other day. I guesstimate I'm around 3ml of 24mg a day with puffs off some assorted flavored cato's I use as well as the tank. After work I vape more, seems like reading this forum make me vape a lot .

Forgot to add I do inhale most of the time sometimes only half way though, I thought the same thing on some of the reviews when they just puff it like a cigar.

 

[PaulB]

lol, I get your point, cookdawg.

Thanks for your advice PaulB, and I agree with you that i have to experiment with nic levels and find what works for me. I guess with all the reading I've done in the last week, I've seen some conflicting information that has me confused and frustrated. After some thinking, I've also come to the conclusion that I should have expected that since this whole vaping thing is so new in this world.

If I offended or angered anyone, I truly apologize. I guess I need to keep reading and work on learning what works for me.

Thanks for all the advice and information, everyone.

Happy

No prob. I do think you're over-thinking this a bit. (Takes one to know one, as I sometimes do the same with stuff.) Experiment. Realizing that if you goof and overdo it with too high a level (within the vended bounds we're all talking about) the consequence is brief discomfort, not acute illness. Your body will tell you pretty quickly.